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Theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past -- Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival -- Chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world -- Talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author -- Civil law tradition: the centrality of the person -- Islamic legal tradition: the law of a later revelation -- Common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication -- Hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law? -- Asian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?) -- Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law

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